Reviews tagging 'Fatphobia'

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

7 reviews

dizpig's review against another edition

funny lighthearted relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Classism

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Toxic friendship, and Dysphoria

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, and Dysphoria

issyd23's review against another edition

dark emotional funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

You know you love me xoxo 4💋 such a nostalgic throwback! Makes me want to rewatch/finally finish the series.

Some noticeable difference from the show/things I found funny:

• all the characters smoke
• Dan is even more of a softboi!! 
• Vanessa is white, bald, has a heavy Brooklyn accent in the audiobook & is such a pick me girl it’s iconic 👩🏻‍🦲
• Everyone sees chuck for the literal sex pest he is and he has 0 friends 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Stalking, Abortion, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, Dysphoria, and Classism

lias_library22's review against another edition

lighthearted mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual assault, Vomit, Alcohol, and Classism

miaach's review

adventurous dark lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Drug use, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

emilia_thereader's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Fatphobia, Vomit, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Bullying

beholder's review against another edition

funny relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Like, this is genuinely funny and well written. The characters are all believably, humanly flawed (Blair is petty, Serena is egocentric, Dan thinks Serena's the dream manic pixie girl to his normie guy, Chuck is Chuck, Nate is an Enneagram 9). I also liked the choice of tense -- past tense, with the occasional comment in present tense, as if the narrator was telling the story to you in real time.

I really liked losing myself into this world where there was both character types I recognized from real life, but also, such a complete lack of concern for mundane problems that it was escapist. Also, kudos to how well and subtly the narration made fun of all these people. Dan's parts were especially laugh-inducing.

To me personally, it lost a bit of steam around the 47% mark, which is why it's not rated higher.

But yes, to me, it's a genuinely fun, well written book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Fatphobia and Vomit

Eating disorder: There's a detailed description of bulimic character's disordered eating behavior in the first two or so chapters. After that, her behavior is just implied throughout the book. She does not consider getting help or recovery or anything of the sort. Related/implied: there is disdain for fat people throughout the book.

Sexual harassment/assault: Chuck's character sexually harasses Serena in some of their scenes, and harasses and assaults Jenny at the end of the book, although

her brother Dan comes to her help before it can escalate further

. Chuck, to my understanding, was a criticism of that type of person: the narration says that, were their families not old money/powerful/so focused on appearances, a person like Chuck would have been shunned and properly dealt with a long time ago.

Drug use: Almost every scene involving the teenagers, except for ones at school, Barneys, and Jenny and Dan's house, involved alcohol consumption. Nate smokes weed more and more as the book goes along.

abookishlesbian's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Sexual assault, Vomit, Toxic friendship, and Sexual harassment